The Last Candle of East End
The fog in London’s East End did not merely drift; it clung. It was a thick, jaundiced shroud of coal smoke and river damp that tasted of sulfur and desperation. In a cellar beneath a crumbling tenement on Flower and Dean Street, the air was even heavier, smelling of mildew and the metallic tang of blood. Arthur sat in a high-backed chair that had long since lost its stuffing. His frame, once...
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